Talking Meme: Day #10
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thirdblindmouse: Thoughts and feelings on three seasons of OUaT.
Oh, Once Upon a Time. I really do love the show, even though sometimes it really wants to make me punch things. ♥
I think the thing that really made me fall in love with the show was the Season One finale. Most shows would have dragged the Curse storyline on for seasons, keeping the status quo because it was working and not wanting to risk losing it. OUaT didn't do that. They broke the Curse, everyone got their memories back, and then things continued to change. There have been three distinct story arcs since the Curse was broken, with a fourth one obviously coming up, each of them very different than the ones that have come before.
Sometimes the plots weren't exactly handled the way I'd like, of course, but they did change.
I love pretty much all of the characters. Some of their storylines have been handled somewhat clunkily, I'll admit, but the actors manage to pull it off. The cast has amazing chemistry with each other, and it makes things plausible that otherwise might not be.
The show's been surprisingly good at not leaving loose plot threads dangling. I mean, yes, there are some loose threads here and there... but it's been really good at going back at a later time and filling in the blanks, in a way that (usually) doesn't completely screw up the continuity that's already been established. I love going back and rewatching the show from time to time, because you see things in a completely different light after certain things are a revealed.
I'm enjoying the fact that Regina and Rumpelstiltskin aren't quite getting the traditional redemption arc. I mean, yes, they're obviously going through redemption arcs, but the show has made it quite clear that neither of them can just snap their fingers and make years (or centuries, as the case may be) of actions on their part just disappear. A lot of it is because they've hired such talented actors to play the characters, but still. The show's at least trying not to make things go in too straight a line.
There are some things that I wished were being handled differently, of course. They're getting better about the somewhat skeevy "families related by blood are better than families that aren't related by blood" mentality that was really prevalent in the first season, but I could have done without it in the first place. I love Belle and Rumpelstiltskin's relationship, but I really wish the show would touch on the darker, more dysfunctional aspects of it (even just a little bit!) from time to time. I'm thrilled that they have a canonically non-straight character on the show, but it would be nice if she got to have a happy relationship like so many of the heterosexual characters have gotten (which, admittedly, could very much still occur sometime in the second half of the season since we know certain actresses will be back for multiple episodes).
Overall, I think the show's still going strong, and -- while, in a lot of ways, it's a completely different beast than it was when I first started watching it back in Season One -- it hasn't lost its spark. Not yet.
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thirdblindmouse: Thoughts and feelings on three seasons of OUaT.
Oh, Once Upon a Time. I really do love the show, even though sometimes it really wants to make me punch things. ♥
I think the thing that really made me fall in love with the show was the Season One finale. Most shows would have dragged the Curse storyline on for seasons, keeping the status quo because it was working and not wanting to risk losing it. OUaT didn't do that. They broke the Curse, everyone got their memories back, and then things continued to change. There have been three distinct story arcs since the Curse was broken, with a fourth one obviously coming up, each of them very different than the ones that have come before.
Sometimes the plots weren't exactly handled the way I'd like, of course, but they did change.
I love pretty much all of the characters. Some of their storylines have been handled somewhat clunkily, I'll admit, but the actors manage to pull it off. The cast has amazing chemistry with each other, and it makes things plausible that otherwise might not be.
The show's been surprisingly good at not leaving loose plot threads dangling. I mean, yes, there are some loose threads here and there... but it's been really good at going back at a later time and filling in the blanks, in a way that (usually) doesn't completely screw up the continuity that's already been established. I love going back and rewatching the show from time to time, because you see things in a completely different light after certain things are a revealed.
I'm enjoying the fact that Regina and Rumpelstiltskin aren't quite getting the traditional redemption arc. I mean, yes, they're obviously going through redemption arcs, but the show has made it quite clear that neither of them can just snap their fingers and make years (or centuries, as the case may be) of actions on their part just disappear. A lot of it is because they've hired such talented actors to play the characters, but still. The show's at least trying not to make things go in too straight a line.
There are some things that I wished were being handled differently, of course. They're getting better about the somewhat skeevy "families related by blood are better than families that aren't related by blood" mentality that was really prevalent in the first season, but I could have done without it in the first place. I love Belle and Rumpelstiltskin's relationship, but I really wish the show would touch on the darker, more dysfunctional aspects of it (even just a little bit!) from time to time. I'm thrilled that they have a canonically non-straight character on the show, but it would be nice if she got to have a happy relationship like so many of the heterosexual characters have gotten (which, admittedly, could very much still occur sometime in the second half of the season since we know certain actresses will be back for multiple episodes).
Overall, I think the show's still going strong, and -- while, in a lot of ways, it's a completely different beast than it was when I first started watching it back in Season One -- it hasn't lost its spark. Not yet.
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